Kabir’s Poetry on Wisdom and Pride: Looking Beyond Outward Appearances
Kabir’s couplets are admired for their directness, irony and ability to challenge religious and social complacency. They often take a familiar image or everyday situation and turn it into a test of the reader’s assumptions. Because many verses circulated orally, wording and attribution can vary; a careful reading should distinguish the broad Kabir tradition from claims about one definitive text. …
